Today’s conference championship games between Duke and Florida State, and Michigan State and Ohio State will reveal to the country why a BCS National Championship game that doesn’t involve an SEC team is illegitimate. FSU might destroy Duke (though it wouldn’t surprise me if the Devils make it a contest), and everyone expects OSU to lose to MSU. But the Buckeyes might pull one out. Who knows? Who cares? Both FSU (#1) and OSU (#2) represent the BCS National Championship game on January 6th in Pasadena. And if they get there – it will be an illegitimate game. Any championship game that doesn’t include an SEC team is illegitimate.

Fact: 8 of the last 10 BCS Champions have been from the SEC.

Fact: The last 7 BCS Champions in a row have been SEC teams.

Fact: The SEC is The Show. Every other conference is at best AAA.

Next year’s playoffs can’t get here fast enough. It’s hard to go undefeated in the SEC. We’ve adhered to the ridiculous BCS format long enough. Just don’t complain when 3/4 of the teams in that playoff are from the Southeastern Conference.

Should FSU and OSU both win today, leading to a BCS Championship game between two big conference’s undefeated champions, at least it will be a competitive final match. But if you wanted to see the real college football championship game this year, you had to be watching the Iron Bowl last Saturday. If you missed it, here is one of the greatest endings in college football history – between two great teams.

Jim Mitchem

Not this year. The SEC isn’t as dominate as they have been. They don’t have a team as complete as Florida State. Auburn earned the right to play in the National Championship game but I think year is different.

Do you know how long we have heard that line of garbage in the SEC? “This isn’t the SEC’s year,” and “They’re not as good as [INSERT BIG 10 OR BIG 12 TEAM NAME HERE].” No, the SEC IS as dominant this year as any other year – they just have to play each other all year long. If you took your favorite non-SEC team and put them in the SEC East, they’d be humiliated. And this is coming from a Florida fan. We had our worst season in our school’s HISTORY this year and still baffled FSU for the first half of our annual tilt with them. No sir, you’re wrong. The SEC is the world superpower in college football. Every year.

How can you say that when two Big 12 teams (Texas A&M and Missouri) were inserted and in two years have been at the top of the conference? Especially Missouri who won the SEC East this year.

There’s no taking away from the run the SEC has had the last 8 years, but to say Auburn is as dominate as any of the teams from the last few years, or even as dominate as the Auburn team that won a few years ago, is blinded fandom.

This should be a twitter dialogue, but ok, I’ll play along – it’s 31-24 as I type this. Sure, it’s a lot of points for Bama to give up. That’s definitely surprising. But let’s look at the facts – this bowl season the SEC is 4-1 with 3 games to go. And this Alabama game is far from over.